The incoming CIO will become responsible for an annual budget of around $60 million, and will lead the university’s 250-person technology branch.

The uni wants a new tech leader who is "prepared to take measured risks in leading the university's response to digital disruption in education delivery, and ensuring its own IT operating model is contemporary and agile".

More recently the university launched a new 300 TFlop Lenovo System x NeXtScale high-performance computing system, dubbed Phoenix, to meet its researcher's compute needs.

"As our inaugural CIO, [Gregory’s] achievements have been many but include the implementation of a workforce in-sourcing strategy, establishment of an IT project selection framework, and the embedding of a pervasive customer service culture," Adelaide Uni chief operating officer Bruce Lines told iTnews.

"[Gregory]’s contribution to such projects as "the library of the future", the university’s MOOC’s initiative and the Phoenix supercomputer has been pivotal."

Before moving to Australia in mid-2013, Gregory was CIO and associate vice president at Portland State University in Oregon.

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